Insane Guest

I love Metallica and I will defend them, but Slayer kicks their ass. Better albums, faster, heavier, and just the greater thrash band. Should headline every Big 4 festival.

METALLICA_RULES

Metallica. Better band musically, and I prefer listening to them.

Metal Connoisseur

I voted Metallica here. Just a better listen for me personally. People talk about Slayer being so "consistent" but the 90's weren't very kind to them either. I consider myself a fan but Divine Intervention, Undisputed Attitude, and Diabolus in Musica just weren't very good. The nu metal elements found in the late nineties never really seemed to get criticized as much as Metallica's flirtations with hard rock and alt rock. Thankfully Slayer got their **** together on God Hates Us All; just trying to point out a double standard

teamventure

undisputed attitude not good? someone doesn't have a punk background. they cover minor fricken threat and d.r.i. in those albums. those bands aren't good?

Metal Connoisseur

I really like Minor Threat, and Glen Danzig but those aren't Slayer originals. 90's Slayer I think is just a shadow of their 80's selves, and you can def make the same argument for Metallica. My punk background is lacking, you have me there. It's something i'm working on.

teamventure

although your observation is interesting i don't think it measures up. slayer would put out a bad record and then get back on the horse with their next record, keeping them relivent. metallica didn't put out an album relivent for two decades.

teamventure

i understand that it's not slayer origionals. the only reason i felt the sake to argue is b/c you jumbled it with those other two albums and said they weren't good. yeah, that albums just a cover album but it's also fricken sweet. i was so stoked the first time a heard slayer covering punk..

Metal Connoisseur

Calling the Black Album irrelevant doesn't quite make sense to me. The fact that it sold millions doesn't change the fact that it sounds pretty damn near what And Justice For All sounded like. 88' was when Metallica changed to me. Anyways, I've always stood by Load and Reload as solid hard rock albums. Not really metal but still good music nonetheless. There's no defending St. Anger, they should have been arrested pending its release.

Unknown Soldier

Undisputed Attitude is a great covers album and one of the best that I know of. Slayer were originally going to cover metal songs on that album, but according to them the songs just didn`t sound right, which is the reason they switched to punk covers.

In general I think cover albums by metal bands to be a disappointment especially when they cover well known metal songs. In fact, the only good covers metal album that I really like is the "Black Sabbath Tribute Album" where most of the bands on their do some kind of justice to the original songs.

I think "...and Justice For All" to be much closer in style and feel to Master of Puppets than to that of the Black Album. I agree with "Load" its a great hard rock album, but I can see why some Metallica fans may not like the bluesy feel of the album.

Howard the Duck

voted Metallica

Slayer uses the pretty much the same old sound throughout except for their dabblings in nu-metal

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